Quotes About Incompetence

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs.

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The missed schedule indicts the planners, not the workers. Even if the workers are utterly incompetent, a plan that takes careful note of their inadequacies can help to minimize the damage. A plan that takes no account of realities is not just useless but dangerous.

There are few successful conspiracies, and human behavior is far better explained through incompetence, cowardice and inefficiency than through the suspicion of devilish plans.

Sorry . . . I can't help stupid.

The result is a pathologic system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence.

It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

Many studies estimate that only about 10 or at most 20 percent of aid ever reaches its target. There are dozens of ongoing fraud investigations into charges of UN and local officials siphoning off aid money. But most of the waste resulting from foreign aid is not fraud, just incompetence or even worse: simply business as usual for aid organizations.

They had good reason. Cyrus Pembridge was easily the worst captain in British nautical history. He had never bothered to learn even the basics of seamanship, choosing instead to occupy his time consuming vast quantities of rum.

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?

We did have a lot to do with it. We had all grown so fat, so complacent, and we always let someone else worry about such things, even though we knew that those we allowed to be in charge were far too often incompetent—or worse, self-serving and blind in their arrogance.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

She was incompetent. Incompetent for life. She had never figured out how to figure things out. She was only vaguely beginning to know the kind of absence she had of herself inside her.

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

A person has an idea about foreign policy or doesn't know one's arse from one's elbow.